Grand Ayatollah Hajj Sheikh Muhammad Kadhim Shirazi

     He was born in the yerar 1873 in the city of Shiraz. He was honored by making the pilgrimage to the holy sites in Iraq in the company of his parents in 1883 and resided in the holy city of Karbala where he started learning Arabic. His parents returned to Shiraz two years later, but he remained in Karbala and kept himself busy with the elementary studies.

     He returned to Shiraz fourteen years after his residence in Karbala. He studied al-Mutawwal and al-Ma`alim in the presence of the perfect scholar, Hajj Sayyid Muhammad Kazeruni who is well-known for his skill in teaching al-Mutawwal. He returned to Karbala after two years of his residence in Shiraz, then he went to Samarra in 1892 in order to continue his studies.

He studied rasaail and makaasib at the presence of the great scholar, Sheikh Hassan Ali Tehrani, who is famous for his knowledge and piety, and he attended the classes of the late Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Taqi Shirazi, and he regularly attended his classes till the day his teacher died.

He left Samarra for Kadhimiya where he taught, then he migrated to the city of Najaf in order to establish a theological seminary. It is worth mentioning that he used to oversee the answers to most religious edicts of Ayatollah Isfahani.

  He left Samarra for Kadhimiya where he taught, then he migrated to the city of Najaf in order to establish a theological seminary. It is worth mentioning that he used to oversee the answers to most religious edicts of Ayatollah Isfahani.

In 1947, one year before his demise, he left the city of Najaf with the intention to make the pilgrimage to the shrine of Imam Reza, peace be upon him. The Islamic seminary in the holy city of Qom and its dignitaries, such as Ayatollah Boroujerdi, Hujjat, Faydh, Khansari and Sadr, welcomed him. In 1948, he died and was buried in one of the chambers of the shrine of Imam Ali, peace be upon him.